June 15

1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death esapassed me, and the pains of hell get hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Grouous in the LORD, and righteous; yes, our God is merited. 6 The LORD preserveeth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul: for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted.

11 I said in my haste, All men are liars 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his senefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. 15 Preach us in the sight of the LORD in the death of his saints. 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. 19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.

"Personal love fostered by a person—experience of redemption is the theme of this Psalm, and in it we see the redeemed answered when they pray—preserved in time of trouble, resting in their God, walking at large, sensible of their obligations, conscious that they are not their own, but bought with a price, and joining with all the ransomed company to sing hallelujahs unto God."—C. H. Spurgeon.

"This Psalm is a threefold engagement of the Psalmist unto thanksgiving unto God for His mercy unto him, and in particular for some notable delivery of him from death, both bodily and spiritual. The first engagement is, that he shall, out of love, have recourse unto God by prayer, verses 1 and 2; the reasons and motives whereof are set down because of his former deliverances, 3-8; the second engagement is to a holy conversation, verse 9; and the motives and reasons are given in verses 10-13; the third engagement is to continual praise and service, and specially to pay those vows before the church which he had made in days of sorrow, the reasons whereof are given in verses 14-19."—David Dickson.

Closet Promise.—I am Thine.—Psalm exix. 94.

This is a wonderful stone for the sling of faith. It will slay any Goliath of Temptation, if we only sling it out boldly and determinately at him. When self tempts us (and we know how often that is), let it be met with

'Not your own,' and then look straight away to Jesus with "I am Thine." —Frances Ridley Havergal.